RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
We are happy to announce the latest addition to our Orthodox Christian Treasury series: a new translation of The Life of St. Amator of Auxerre. Many Orthodox Christians are familiar with St. Germanus of Auxerre, the great Wonderworker of the…
The Twenty-Second Day of the Month of November The Passion of the Holy Martyr Cecilia and the Holy Martyrs Who Suffered With Her, Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus From The Great Collection of the Lives of the Saints, Volume 3: November,…
Ἐπιμέλεια Μοναχοῦ Συμεὠν Η Αγία Καικιλία η προστάτις της (Εκκλησιαστικής) μουσικής τέχνης εγεννήθη στην Ρώμη κατά τις αρχές του τρίτου αιώνος από γονείς ευγενείς (ανήκαν στην ευγενή τάξη των «Καικιλίων») και πλουσίους πλήν όμως ειδωλολάτρες. Από νεαράς ηλικίας εβαπτίσθηκε Χριστιανή…
Saint Eadberht, was Bishop of Lindisfarne, England, from 688 until his death on 6 May 698. He is notable as having founded the holy shrine to his predecessor Saint Cuthbert on the island of Lindisfarne, a place that was to become a centre of great pilgrimage in…
Saint Asaph (or Asa) first Bishop of the Welsh See of that name (second half of the sixth century). No Welsh life of him is extant, but local tradition points out the site of his ash tree, his church, his well, and…
Today (29 April) we commemorate St Endelienta (Endelient, Edellienta, Endelyn, Endellion, Cynheiddon or Cenheidlon), nun-recluse of Cornwall. From Baring-Gould & Fisher: ‘S. ENDELIENTA, Virgin. Leland, in the list he gives of the children of Brychan who settled in Cornwall, derived from…
St. Machalus (Maughold, Machalus, Maccul, Maccaille) was first the leader of a band of robbers, who then preyed on travelers. When St. Patrick was traveling, the group made a plan to trick him by putting one of their gang, named…
Saint Faro (or Burgundofaro; died c. 675 AD), Count of Guines, was bishop of Meaux. The family to which Faro belonged is known as the Faronids and is named after him. Burgundofaro was of an ancient noble Burgundian family. His brothers were Saint Waldebert, count of Guines, Ponthieu, and Saint-Pol who became…
Saint Wulfram of Fontenelle or Saint Wulfram of Sens ( c. 640–20 March 703[1]) was the Archbishop of Sens. His life was recorded eleven years after he died by the monk Jonas of Fontenelle. However, there seems to be little consensus about the precise dates…
Source: orthodoxwiki The holy and right-believing King Edward the Martyr (c. 962 – March 18, 978/979) succeeded his father, Edgar of England, as King of England in 975, but was murdered after a reign of only a few years. As the murder was…
